WHY DOES TROUBLE ALWAYS SEEM TO STALK OUR ALL ACTION HEROES?

Pot and pedalos: Ian Botham, left, and Andrew Flintoff
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Bristol brawl: Ben Stokes at his trial this week

Derek Pringle points out that it is usually the great England all-rounders who find that life outside the game can be problematic
To explain things we don’t always understand we look for patterns and one that has emerged in the wake of the Ben Stokes trial for affray, is that England all-rounders have a habit of coming into conflict with authority.
From Ian Botham to Chris Lewis to Andrew Flintoff to Stokes and even your...

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